LESSON XLVI.  REVIEW.

“Well, children, did you have a nice time in the woods?”

“Oh yes, mother, such a good time!  See what sweet flowers we found, and what soft moss.  The best flowers are for grandma.  Won’t they please her?”

“Yes; and it will please grandma to know that you thought of her.”

[Illustration:  Dog sitting by picnic basket in woods.  Two dolls are lying next to the basket.]

“Rab was such a good dog, mother.

We left him under the big tree by the brook, to take care of the dolls and the basket.

“When we came back, they were all safe.  No one could get them while Rab was there.  We gave him some of the crackers from the basket.

“O mother, how the birds did sing in the woods!

“Fanny said she would like to be a bird, and have a nest in a tree.  But I think she would want to come home to sleep.”

“If she were a bird, her nest would be her home.  But what would mother do, I wonder, without her little Fanny?”

LESSON XLVII.

beach shells these seat waves go’ing

ev’er sea watch e’ven ing la’zy side

[Illustration:  Horses pulling family in wagon.]

These boys and girls live near the sea.  They have been to the beach.  It is now evening, and they are going home.

John, who sits on the front seat, found some pretty shells.  They are in the basket by his side.

Ben White is driving.  He holds the lines in one hand, and his whip in the other.

Robert has his hat in his hand, and is looking at the horses.  He thinks they are very lazy; they do not trot fast.

The children are not far from home.  In a little while the sun will set, and it will be bedtime.

Have you ever been at the seaside?  Is it not good sport to watch the big waves, and to play on the wet sand?

LESSON XLVIII.

log qui’et proud pulled fish stump riv’er fa’ther

[Illustration:  Father and son fishing from under a tree.]

One evening Frank’s father said to him, “Frank, would you like to go with me to catch some fish?”

“Yes; may I go? and with you, father?”

“Yes, Frank, with me.”

“Oh, how glad I am!”

Here they are, on the bank of a river.  Frank has just pulled a fine fish out of the water.  How proud he feels!

See what a nice, quiet spot they have found.  Frank has the stump of a big tree for his seat, and his father sits on a log near by.  They like the sport.

LESSON XLIX.

rain out’side of’ten pit’ter say win’dow

sound pat’ter drops some’times on’ly mu’sic